Ellen Glasgow Reality Quotations

To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.